Australian Labour Market Starting to Recover: ABS Survey

Head chef Geraud Fabre of France-Soir waits for take-away orders in Melbourne on May 8 as Australia's government unveiled a three-stage plan to get the economy back to a "new normal" by the end of July. William West/AFP via Getty Images

The number of Australians with a job has steadily increased over the month to early May, a survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has found.

The proportion of people reporting they had a job had increased to 64.2 percent, up 0.8 percentage points over the month from the first week of April, figures from the Household Impacts of COVID-19 Survey show.